Awards

Winning awards is a byproduct of effective communications.
—Kit Hinrichs, Managing Partner, Pentagram, San Francisco

Awards are important. They are the recognition of special effort, quality work, and supreme professionalism. They’re a reflection of your integrity and what you’re all about. Those who say they don’t care about winning awards are usually the ones who take shortcuts—who design, write, shoot, or draw for themselves and not their audiences or clients. They’re the people who refuse to break with tradition or take the risks necessary to convey the most effective, memorable messages. The objective, after all, is not merely to make things look good; it’s to communicate. Portfolio Center students are superlative by this measure, as proven by the thousands of prizes they’ve garnered from these organizations and others:

Art Directors Club

Coca-Cola National Student Scholarship

UCDA

Critique Magazine, Big Crit

Graphis Design, American Graphic Design Awards

Graphis New Talent

Graphis, Graphic Design Annual

Graphis International Poster Annual

Showsouth

The One Club

The Ad Club of Atlanta, Addy Awards

Garage Fonts and Macromedia International In Search of the Next Big Whatever Font Competition

Gameworks and World Studio Foundation National Student Scholarships

Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket and Journal Show

Mead Annual Report Competition

Worldstudio Foundation Photography Scholarships

How Magazine Promotional Annual

Andy Awards

Clio Awards

CMYK Interactive Showcase

Graphis Advertising

Graphis Photography

AIGA’a World Day of Design Poster Competition

Radio-Mercury Awards

D&AD Awards

Adobe Design Achievement Awards